Dear BDH,
I’m looking for an insect expert for some brainstorming regarding research for the book involving imaginary oversized insect monsters. If you are reading this and happen to be an entomologist who doesn’t mind answering a few questions, please email me at ilona@ilona-andrews.com.
Dear BDH, please do not volunteer your friends without asking them first.
love this, im imagining all sorts!
I’m trying NOT to imagine the over-sized bugs themselves.
However, I am having all KINDS of fun imagining where these will appear. Sounds like a good Inheritance fit, but then, I’ll take them wherever they end up. Bugs with Maggie? Sure! Bugs with Hugh? Hugh will destroy them! Bugs with Innkeeper? No match for Dina or Sean or Arland or even Helen. I’m just assuming the bugs will be vanquished. If they aren’t . . . just don’t tell me. Don’t take the vanquishing of bugs away from me.
Also, love how much the fantasy is grounded in fact.
Never thought I’d wish I was a bug expert 😀
Ditto on that!
Im many kind of biologist, plants, potatoes, cell biologist, cancer, crabs. Sadly not bugs.
Even the Thranx were too large to actually move, due to the weight of their exoskeletons. You’ll need some hefty magic to explain how your large bugs move. But, with magic, all things are possible, right?
It’s how dragons fly, so why not giant insects?
Dang. If only I still had the number for that entomologist I dated in college….
Oooo….. let me see if I can contact an old mentor of mine. He actually wrote a PLAY about giant mosquitos in the 80’s (and I was in the production) where the larvae was supposed to be used to “solve the world hunger crisis” but it went so, so wrong LOL. Last I checked he was building Butterfly Gardens and Habitats as a hobby in his retirement….. and his wife was a college English prof to boot if I recall correctly!
I’ll reach out via email if he’s game.